Iraq Museum International announces the start of production of "The Tigris," a feature-length aerial journey up the Tigris River, using high-resolution photography and new computer animation technologies.

The footage library will be available in all major video formats, and an interactive version will allow travel at various speeds.

Audiences will be able to carefully examine the features of the Tigris from altitudes as low as 1500 feet. The digital video production will also circle slowly around sites and cities of interest along the famous river. The best known points include Basra, Ctesiphon, Seleucia, Baghdad, Samarra, Tikrit, Assur, Nimrud, Nineveh and Mosul.

ENDANGERED SITE: ALL OF IRAQ*
Use this archaeological map of Iraq
to pinpoint over 50 sites along the Tigris.
Click to access the high-resolution
version (3800 x 4500 pixels, 1.29M).

The purpose of the production is to show archaeological sites, both major and minor, that remain vulnerable to continual looting, and to give a bird's eye view of the activities of black market dealers.

In addition, other producers, educators and organizations will be able to use the smooth gliding aerial footage for different narrations on other topics such as art, literature, ancient and modern history, the environment, agriculture, commerce, transportation, community development, and reconstruction efforts in Iraq.

Below is an aerial view of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, with the Tigris River in the distance. Circling the museum reveals the surrounding neighborhoods. Click the links to view the museum compound from 8 different aerial "holding pattern" positions.

Please note that this demo clip has no sound, is not color-corrected, and is a very large Windows Movie (wmv) file.

We welcome your comments on how you would like to use "The Tigris" or footage from this production in your programs, courses or for your organization. If you would like to join our production workgroup at this early stage of production, you would be entitled to non-exclusive use of the footage. Requests for footage once production is complete will be subject to license fees.

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* The World Monuments Fund has announced that its list of 100 most endangered sites now includes the entire country of Iraq, as nominated by the Iraq State Board of Antiquities and Heritage. For more information, visit World Monuments Watch: Country-Wide, Iraq.